Kristian Beverly

My First Donation Piece

July 15, 2013Kristian BeverlyLeave a comment

As you know, I’m a big fan of the Misty Stories and Chincoteague ponies on general, so it really isn’t a huge shocker that my first donation piece would evolve around the island of Chincoteague and their ponies.

My donation isn’t being sent to a model horse show. Instead it’s being sent to the Feather Fund who has a model horse auction every year during Pony Penning Week to fund their cause. Every year the Feather Fund holds an essay contest that gifts a Chincoteague Pony from the auction to a girl or boy. In order for them to be able to fund this they hold an auction that sells off model horses that are painted to look like the real herd members.

So my model is painted to look like Black Tie Affair AKA ‘Ace’.

Here’s the real pony

The story of The Feather Fund is amazing and inspirational.It started in 1995, not yet known as the Feather Fund, when two girls wanted to buy their own Chincoteague Pony at the auction but did not have enough money to. A woman named Carollynn Suplee came up to them and wanted to buy them a pony. She told the family that she wanted to give back after surviving a cancer surgery and felt that God was leading her to do so. The two girls got their pony and named him Sea Feather. Every year after that Carollynn Suplee would buy a pony for a kid or buy a buy back foal until her death in 2003 after her cancer returned. She touched enough people for the Feather Fund to be started and continued in her honor.

If you’d like to learn more (and read the entire history on the Feather Fund) here’s the website.

Things to see at Breyerfest

July 14, 2013December 28, 2024Kristian BeverlyLeave a comment

There are mmmany cool things to see during Breyerfest.

1) See the Parade of Breeds.
It’s very informative and what’s not to love about seeing a bunch of cool horse breeds?

2) Visit the different museums.

3) See the famous horses at the Hall of Champions

4) Watch the demos and see the real horses.

5) Go to the madness at the Clarion and buy,buy, and buy!
(Don’t have a picture of this but imagine a hotel full of model horse people everywhere. Then you’ll get the picture.)
6) Try to visit the shows.
The youth one has the best youth showers.

The Open has awesome stuff.

RIP

July 12, 2013December 28, 2024Kristian BeverlyLeave a comment

RIP my lovely dremel. You served me well during your life of drilling through model horses of all sizes. You will be missed.

But here is the new replacement. Hasn’t been taken out of the box yet, but it’s a Dremel 4000. :)

Another Model Day!

July 11, 2013Kristian BeverlyLeave a comment

So today was another artsy day at Madison’s house. I worked on dolls.

hmmm….I think I cut a little bit too much. What do you think?

Madison worked on actual models. If you’d like to see more of her model’s story, head over to her blog: Here !!! I did get stuff done though. That’ll be for another day.